Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-08

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RY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. Miooooisl'
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
IT is current rumor in European capitals
that the Gar of Russia and the Emperor
of Germany are soon to meet at Stettfn.
WONDERFUL arrangement has been
made with the Utes. They quit hghtin g,
get part of their ponies back and pay for
the balance themselves.
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN LEE DAVIS, q. s.
N. has been retired. Commodore Braine
succeeds to the vacant rank and Captain
George Brown is promoted to Commodore.
THE vapor stove manufacturers of the
country decided at a meeting in Cleve-
land, O., on the ID, to pool their interests
in one big concern, with headquarters in
Cleveland.
GENERAL NELSON A. MILES was thrown
from a tally-ho coach near Los Angeles,
Cal, on the evening of the 3Oth, and his
right leg was broken at the ankle. Sever
al others sustained slight injuries.
MRS. NELLIE GRANT SARToRIs arrived
at New York on the Elbe on the 30th, with
her eight-year-old daughter Vivian. She
will visit her mother, Mrs. U. s. Grant, at
Long Branch, and friends at Saratoga.
THE subject of General Master Work
man Powderly's address on October 3, be-
fore the National convention of the
Knights of Labor at Minneapolis, will be-:
t'The World as Knighthood Would Make
IT,
The arrangement for the Pope's jubilee
are being perfected with most elaborate
grandeur. 1t is understood visitors of
@'inf1uence'' are to be so dazzled that
temporal power will be restored to the
pontif-
THE collector of customs at Suspension
Bridge, N. Y, seized the Canadian steam
er Hastings at Lewiston for violation of
the navigation laws in carrying passen-
gers between Lewiston and Olcott- two
American ports.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND telegraphed
from Washington on the I'd accepting the
courtesy of the Commercial Exchange of
Philadelphia, and will attend the recep-
ton rendered him by the exchange on the
morning of Friday September 10.
THE Iowa Democratic State convention
on the 1st nominated the following
ticket: Governor, Major T. F. Anderson
Lieutenant Governor, j. NJ. Elder; Judge
Supreme Court, Charles S. Fogg; Super
intendent of Public Instruction, FL. w.
Sawyer.
THE London Times protests against the
treatment to which British sealers in Beh-
rings sea are subjected by the American
authorities in Alaska, and suggests that
the government send cruiser to Alaska
waters to secure strictly legal treatment
for British vessels.
TREASURY Department officials estimate
that the reduction in the public debt dur
ing the past month will be about $500, 900.
This comparatively light monthly reduc-
ton is accounted for by the unusual heavy
pension draft for August, which amounted
to fully $1,000, 600.
SCARLET FEVER has become epidemic in
London and at the English seaside resorts,
and is increasing in virulence daily A
great many families have gone to the con-
tinent through fear Of the disease. after
having moved from place to place in En-
gland trying to escape IT.
MAYOR HEWITT of New York has &C.
.cepted an invitation to review the Labor
Day parade. He refused, however, to al
low the italian flag to be hoisted ON the
City Hall ON that day and said that such
"A thing should not be permitted as long as
he was mayor of New York
Mr. ARTHUR O'CoNNER, member OF
Parliament for Donegal and Sir Thomas
Henry Grattan Esmonde, member of
Parliament from Dublin County, will visit
the United States in September and adj
dress monster meetings to be convened by
the National Irish League of America
NOTWITHSTANDING the large pension
payments this month, amounting to $16,-
800, 900, the receipts for the month to the
'29th were, more than 1900, geo in excess OF
the total expenditures during the same
period. The receipts have averaged over
a million dollars a day, and amount tc
s$S3,s14, 1854
A PETITION has been filed in the General
Land Office by citizens Of White Pine
County, New, accompanied by resolutions
passed at public meeting asking the in
tervention of the land department to pro
tect settlers against the unlawful appro
priation of the public domain by foreign
sheep-raisers.
THE total coinage executed at the minis
of the United States during the month OF
August was 9,2S2, 900 pieces of the value OF
So 800, 800. OF this amount $4,000 were
half eagles, S., SIC, 900 standard silver dol.
lars, 1886, 900 dimes and SIS, 800 minor coin
The total gold coinage was $50, 600 and the
total silver So, 165, 800.
The President is taking a decided inter
est in the centennial celebration of the
adoption of the Constitution, which is to
take place in Philadelphia during this
month. He has determined that the mill
tary and naval forces shall be well repre-
scented on the occasion.
THE President has awarded gold life
saving medals to Captain s. w. Dunha m
of the British ship Favanlus for the rescue
of the crew of the American schooner
George E. Young last April, and to Peter
Polio, first mate of the italian bark Nord
America, for bravery in .rescuing the crew
of the American Schooner Parker NJ
Hooper last March.
ACTING LAND COMMISSIONERS STOCK
SLAGER has issued orders restoring to set
Element aud entry the lands within the
indemnity limits withdrawn for the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Railroad Company, excluding those on the
main line FROM Hudson to Superior, the
Wisconsin Farm Mortgage Company and
the Wisconsin Central Railroad Com.
pany.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has in
formed a Canada correspondent that green
apples and Derishaffe fruits are not liable